The Impact of Immediate Grammatical Error Correction on Senior English Majors’ Accuracy at Hebron University

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Hamada Dawood ¹ (Hebron University, Palestine)

Received: 2015-11-13 Accepted : 2015-11-13 Published : 2014-09-01

Keywords: accuracy, grammatical error, senior English, process of learning,

Abstract :

This study aimed at investigating the effects of grammatical error correction on EFL learners’ accuracy. Twenty-two male and female senior students were chosen randomly to respond to a questionnaire investigating their beliefs about immediate grammatical error correction. Actually, the study was conducted in order to answer this question: what is the effect of grammatical error feedback on students’ accuracy? The obtained results related to the questionnaire revealed that immediate error correction had a positive effect and thus enhanced the learners’ accuracy.